Jan Breydel Stadium

Two clubs come through the same gates here. Club Brugge KV and Cercle Brugge both play their home matches on this pitch, which belongs to the city of Bruges rather than to either of them.

The ground opened as the Olympiastadion and kept that name for more than two decades. The new one arrived with the money: Belgium and the Netherlands were to co-host UEFA Euro 2000, the stadium had to be enlarged and modernised for it, and the subsidies were granted on condition that it be renamed after Jan Breydel, the Bruges man who set off the Bruges Matins in the 13th and 14th centuries. The renaming followed in 1998. Depret carried out the building work between 1997 and 1999. The spending did not end with the tournament — over the following eight years, taxpayers put €13 million into renovation and upkeep.

Four Euro 2000 matches were played here, three of them France's: 3–0 against Denmark on 11 June, 2–1 against the Czech Republic on 16 June, and the quarter-final against Spain on 25 June, won 2–1. The fourth was FR Yugoslavia against Spain on 21 June, which finished 3–4. The European Under-21 Championship brought fixtures back in 2007.

The largest official crowd came later still: 28,728 on 26 August 2015, for the second leg of a Champions League play-off in which Manchester United tore Club Brugge to shreds, 0–4. That December the pitch was relaid with the Italian Mixto hybrid system, and grass and synthetic fibre have shared it since.